strftime on solaris

[Zvi Har'El]

Hi,

I just installed gawk version "GNU Awk 3.1.0" on two Solaris systems:
    SunOS leeor.math.technion.ac.il 5.6 Generic_105181-26 sun4m sparc
    SunOS fermat.math.technion.ac.il 5.8 Generic_108528-03 sun4u sparc
In both I had the problem that the strftime() %z format was not recognized by
gawk. The reason is that configure is not able to identify the fact that the
native Solaris strftime() is not usable since it lacks a %z format (it does
have %Z -- "time zone name or abbreviation, or no bytes if no time zone
information exists", but does not have the GNU extension %z -- "The time-zone
as hour offset from GMT. Required to emit RFC822-conformant dates (using "%a,
%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"). (GNU)"). To fix the problem one has to modify config.h
by hand:

--- config.h~ Tue Jun 12 20:19:06 2001
+++ config.h    Sun Oct  7 15:55:47 2001
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@
 #define HAVE_STRERROR 1

 /* Define if you have the strftime function.  */
-#define HAVE_STRFTIME 1
+/* #define HAVE_STRFTIME 1*/
+#define SOLARIS 1

 /* Define if you have the strncasecmp function.  */
 #define HAVE_STRNCASECMP 1


The #define SOLARIS line is needed so that the packaged strftime() will
be compiled correctly.


I suggest that you fix configure so that it doesn't use the Solaris native
strftime().


Thanks,

Zvi.

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